US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on April 14 for "Mixed digital and subarray-based beamformer" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,693, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Mixed digital and subarray-based beamformer" was invented by Foad Sohrabi (Murray Hill, N.J.), Pavan Koteshwar Srinath (Massy, France) and Jinfeng Du (Murray Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, an apparatus may receive at least one uplink pilot associated with a receiver comprising at least one digital beamforming, DBF, -panel and at least one subarray-based beamforming, SABBF, -panel, the at least one DBF-panel having an associated DBF-channel and the at least one SABBF-panel having an associated SABBF-channel. ...